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Lecture cites benefits of technology
Week of festivities and
lectures raise awareness
of the role of geography
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Geography — it’s more than
just maps.
It is the fundamental under
standing of how the world works,
said Bill Loy, professor emeritus
of geography.
But more and more, geography
is done using Geographic Infor
mation System technology and
computer graphics programs
shared on the Web.
“We still honor maps, and we
still make maps, and we still like
maps, but we are spending more
time with Web sites to share geo
graphic information,” Loy said.
Dr. Michael Goodchild, a geo
graphic information science
scholar from the University of
California, Santa Barbara, told
more than 60 students and faculty
members in a lecture that there
are several possible reasons that
GIS should be considered a sci
ence in an academic environ
ment. Goodchild’s lecture was
given at the Chiles Business Cen
ter on Tuesday and was part of
National Geography Awareness
Week festivities which continue
throughout the week. This year’s
theme is “People, Places, and Pat
terns: Geography puts the pieces
together.”
“It’s a mature technology like
word processing or spreadsheets,"
Goodchild said. “It’s so easy a 10
year-old child could do it.”
Some people say GIS is like a
branch of engineering, concerned
Lectures
WHO: Professor Ronald Wixman
WHAT: “What is going on in Rus
siar
WHEN: Thursday, 7:30 p,m.
WHERE: 207 Chapman Hall
WHO: Professor Cathy Whitlock
WHAT: “Northwest Forests in the
Face of Climate Change: Their histo
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WHEN: Friday, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: 100 Willamette Hall
WHY: For Geography Awareness
Week
largely with practice, or that it is
an immature technology whose
development requires significant
advanced research.
Goodchild said the reason he
supports it is that GIS is “a tech
nology that requires a strong the
oretical and conceptual frame
work that has not yet been
developed.”
He said he explains GIS to oth
er people as a container for paper
maps, much like early automo
biles were described as horseless
carriages.
“The paper map has con
strained our way of thinking of
GIS,” he said. “Certainly GIS can
represent distance, location and
proximity, but we have not made
much progress in sense of place.”
As part of the Geography
Awareness celebration, the Uni
versity’s department of geography
unveiled a Web site this week that
tries to show a sense of place in
Eugene.
The department of geography,
with the advice of several Eugene
high school teachers, two seminar
classes of students and Masao
Matsuoka, a graduate student, cre
ated the Web site for citizens of
Eugene’s sister city, Kakegawa,
Japan.
Now citizens of Kakegawa can
get to the know the geography of
Eugene, including Eugene’s loca
tion, what it’s like to live here,
what the economy is like and
transportation, energy sources,
food and water supply.
“Masao has taken something
that was really crude, the first
draft of student work and devel
oped it into this Web site,” Loy
said.
Twenty-two Kakegawa teach
ers are currently working on a
mirror image project for their city.
Loy said geography is more
than place locations: it’s natural
systems, cultural systems, weath
er systems and national policies.
“I see all of this understanding
as more geographical understand
ing, and that’s more than just
learning the names of the capi
tals,” Loy said.
The true meaning of geography
was lost about 30 years ago when
it was lumped together with his
tory and political science and
called social science, Loy said.
President Reagan declared this
week National Geography Aware
ness Week after the National Geo
graphic Company and the Associ
ation of American Geographers
decided something needed to be
done to reclaim geography as a
separate field of study.
Loy said Geographic Alliance
has invested $80 million in train
ing teachers in geography.
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Substance, 1750 Alder St.: Culinary
Institute student arrested.
Nov. 14, Unlawful Distribution of a
Controlled Substance, 14th Avenue
and Ferry Street: minor arrested after
running from police.
Nov. 14, Shoplift II, Duckshop, 2735
Leo Harris Parkway: minor arrested
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Leo Harris Parkway: another minor
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store, 895 E. 13th Ave.: minor at
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